PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM

PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM, KITE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058506
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM
Statutory Address:: PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM, KITE LANE

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Date:: 1999-08-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058506
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM
Statutory Address 1:: PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM, KITE LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PRINCIPAL BARN IN FARMYARD AT ABBEY FARM, KITE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ditcheat
National Grid Reference:: ST 62293 36224

Details

DITCHEAT CP KITE LANE (West side) ST6236 16/257 Principal barn in farmyard at - Abbey Farm - II

Barn with attached horse-engine house and cart-shed. C18, early C19 alteration. Coursed rubble, tile roofs, stone tiles to eaves, coped verges, freestone dressings. Barn rectangular in plan with a hipped roof porch to each long side. Six bays, slit-breathers to elevations; porches with paired plank doors, iron strap hinges. Attached to east a single-storeyed engine-house with half-conical tile roof supported on an open arcade of 7 thick wooden posts which in turn stand on stone plinths, inside remains of overhead gearing with iron pinion and drive shaft; inside the barn the driveshaft terminates in an iron and wood flywheel. Raised lias threshing floor Roof of simple tie-beam construction. Two bay cart-shed attached to north, 2 high openings, divided by wooden post. An rare example of an horse engine-house in north Somerset.

Listing NGR: ST6229336224

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Legacy System number:: 268310
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.